Product Manager, Platform
Location: US, CA, Mountain View
Employment type: Full-time
Required experience: Mid-Senior level
Required education: Master's Degree
Industry: Computer Software
Function: Product Management

Company profile:
Come be a part of one of the fastest growing, well-funded and exciting startups in Silicon Valley.  Peel makes the world’s leading smart remote app which turns your mobile device into a universal remote control. Our technology is preloaded on many of the world’s top-selling Android devices.  Peel’s audience is at 60 million and doubling every six months with 3 billion+ remote commands handled every month.   Help us revolutionize the TV viewing experience and achieve our goal of becoming the universal controller for the internet of things.Peel is driven by design and a passion for developing brilliant user experiences. We simplify complex problems, then surprise and delight. Prior to starting at Peel, members of the team helped create some of the best products available today, including iTunes, iPhoto, Netflix, Roku, Avid, and Final Cut Pro. We're a fun company that works hard, but understands the value of well balanced professional and personal lives. Away from work, we raise wonderful young families, race cars, sail boats, play instruments, and go on adventures in outer space… Well, maybe we all just dream about that last one… On the job, we come in charged and focussed on changing the industry, forever. We want to work with like-minded creative and talented people. If you want to change the world and the face of entertainment, we want to hear from you!

Job description:
The Peel Platform takes the Peel application and presents it as a platform that third party apps (webapps and mobile apps) can use. The goal is to make the functionality of content discovery and remote control something that is ubiquitous and universally available. The Product Manager of the Peel Platform will be responsible for the conceptualization and implementation of the Platform. Own and evolve the product roadmap of the platform. Run the engineering scrums to develop the platform in quick iterative sprints. Deploy and Manage Developer resources and solutions. Evangelize the platform in the developer community. Organize fireside chats and hackathons to promote the platform among the developer community. 

Requirements:
The Product Manager of the Peel Platform must be a multi-faceted candidate with excellent educational and experiential qualifications. Ideal candidate would be a product manager that has evolved from an Engineering Background.Must have prior experience as Product Manager of a platform.Must have conceptualized and executed the platform.Must have run the program of building the platform.Must be able to evangelize platform to community of developers.Develop and manage documents and other developer resources for the platform on the company website.Developer sign in, licenses, etc, API reference docs,  forums etc for all developer activities. Experience organizing fireside chats etc for developers.Be technical/product representative for the platform during sales meetings with major clients. Develop a self service developer strategy. Clear approach to building anything. Must be able to articulate the approach. Clear approach to continuous improvement of product retention. Must be able to articulate the approach.Be able to analyze market and industry trends to recommend product focus areas to management. Experience working with designers and UI developers to transform an idea into real user interface.Be able to develop product roadmap and set clear milestones.Execute roadmap in clear chunks of work that go out to market every 2 weeks.Be able to run daily scrums to deliver product.Deliver to time and to quality requirements.Presentation skills to present ideas, new interfaces etc to founders.Take founders feedback and rev designs and concepts.Educational Requirements: Engineering Degree, MBA from top business school.

Benefits:
Come be a part of one of the fastest growing, well-funded and exciting startups in Silicon Valley.  Peel makes the world’s leading smart remote app which turns your mobile device into a universal remote control. Our technology is preloaded on many of the world’s top-selling Android devices.  Peel’s audience is at 60 million and doubling every six months with 3 billion+ remote commands handled every month.   Help us revolutionize the TV viewing experience and achieve our goal of becoming the universal controller for the internet of things.What else do we offer? Here are some of the benefits at Peel:* Competitive base salary* Stock Options* Full benefits (medical, dental, vision)* Easy walking distance from Caltrain* Free Caltrain passes* Free parking* Free gourmet lunch Wednesdays* Close proximity to downtown Mountain View eateries* On-site massage* Life insurance* 401K* On-site snacks/beverages/gourmet coffee* Open dog policy* Ping Pong, Pool and other games onsite.